Jr DevOps Engineer at Abile Group, Inc.
Springfield, VA
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Jul 7, 2026
Springfield, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A junior-level DevOps role on a long-term government contract supporting an Intelligence Community customer. Day-to-day work centers on automating and managing deployments, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, administering on-premises and cloud infrastructure, and upholding security and configuration management standards across development, staging, and production environments. The role suits early-career engineers with container platform experience and a TS/SCI clearance.
Mid level · 2+ years · National · TS/SCI clearance · Contract
Advertised as Junior, but the requirements read as Mid.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
The title is 'Jr DevOps Engineer' but the role requires 2+ years of experience, independent unsupervised work, on-call support, and broad infrastructure ownership — requirements that align more with a Mid-level engineer than a true Junior.
The role is on a 10-year contract supporting an Intelligence Community customer; no specific work location is stated beyond 'multiple locations worldwide', so no CBSA could be determined.
TS/SCI with eligibility to obtain a CI polygraph is a hard gate per the Qualifications section.
A Bachelor's degree is listed but the JD explicitly accepts 'the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience', so no minimum degree is hard-required.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role blends software/DevOps automation (15-1252) with infrastructure operations and systems administration (15-1244); the emphasis on CI/CD pipeline building, scripting, and container platform automation tips it toward 15-1252.
Kubernetes, Docker, and OpenShift are listed together as interchangeable container platforms in the required skills; Kubernetes is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives, and vice versa for Docker — both are emitted as required to reflect the JD's 'and/or' framing across the group.
Helm and GitLab-based Kubernetes deployment processes appear under 'Desired Skills' and are marked preferred accordingly.
IAM, S3, SSH, and VPN are listed together under 'Desired Skills' as examples of access management concepts; IAM is used as the representative skill name.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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